The paradigm of energy healing and mysticism in general is a wild, weird and wonderful world, primarily because you come to know with all certainty, that absolutely ANYTHING is possible. I’ve detailed some of these wild, weird, and wonderful events in previous blogposts and in my books, most recently in Confessions of a Mystic Soccer Mom, but here are some more. Weird things that happen, before, during, or after healing sessions #477-481: #477—The night before I was taking a Reiki class, I awoke partially while still sleeping. I saw a person, I believe a woman, standing over my head. A bunch of symbols then appeared over me and abruptly my energy body began vibrating. At my Reiki class the next day, the teacher talked about symbols and attunement and I mentioned that I thought I had had an attunement the night before and told her what happened. Her response: Yes, that kind of thing happens often in preparation for classes. I love it. But I suppose that sort of thing is common for you? Me: Uhhh, yep. #478—After a recent healing session with a client of mine, I hopped in my car to do some errands. My son was with me so he was witness to this and the next event. Driving down Lake City Way, I stopped at a red light, only to see that the car stopped catty-corner from me was the same exact car as mine. Same exact color. Same exact model. Even the license plate number had the same three letters and the same four numbers, except the second and fourth numbers were switched. It was like looking in a mirror! #479—I then drove to a Bartell Drugs and parked beside a car that I realized was still running. No one was in it. No pets were either. As I got out of my car, I was looking around for the driver. I didn’t see anyone outside or anyone inside through a business glass door that looked like they were in a hurry with a car running outside. The car key was clearly in the ignition along with what I’m sure were house keys and other important keys. This is a definite security risk in current-day Seattle that I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone do in decades. As I started to walk by the passenger side of the car to get where I was going, I saw a large black and white picture taped to the dashboard of the car. I thought, “Wow, that’s an old photo—kind of like the ones of my great-grandfather’s UW football team from the 1890s. I continued to walk on by and then I backed up and did a double-take to really look at the photo. I was amazed to find that it in fact WAS one of those photos and indeed I was looking straight at MY VERY OWN GREAT-GRANDFATHER in the photo. (The exact pic is above—I’ve had them on my computer for over a year when this event occurred. If you want to know, he's second row, second from the left.) I thought, This is really weird. I mean, how many people are driving around Seattle with a picture of my great-grandfather taped to the dashboard of their car??? (I believe I'd have better odds winning the LOTTO!) I looked more closely at the car. There was a lot of unusual stuff: a unique yin/yang window sticker, a WWJD bumper sticker (What Would Jung Do?), a Unitarian Counseling sign. It was completely vibing with me. I finished my errand and while my son finished his, I hung around outside my car for a few more minutes to see if I could meet this person and ask why they had a UW Husky photo from the 1890s on the dashboard of their car. However, after several minutes, they never showed up. A Spirit car? #480. After I got back from my errands, which included dropping off my son at the UW, I went to lie down because I was exhausted. My husband was already trying to take a nap. He said to me as soon as I lay down: You're vibrating the bed, can you stop? Me: I'm not vibrating. I'm just lying still. Him: No seriously the whole bed is vibrating. Me: I'm not feeling anything. Him: How can you not feel that? As soon as you lay down, the whole bed started vibrating. Me: Must be energy. #481. After said nap, I got up and went to check the voice mail to make sure I hadn't gotten a message from my son to come and get him at the bus stop. I picked up the phone receiver and there was no dial tone. It sounded like someone was there. Me: Hello? My Son: Come pick me up in a couple of minutes. This happened without the phone ringing. Alone, I might have laughed and mostly dismissed any one of these. However, together this kind of a thing can be a common series of unusual events before or after a healing session. What happens during a healing session? Well, you never know! Portals from the other side open. Loved ones who’ve passed might appear. Angels and guides show up with healing energy. You feel a physical touch where I am not touching you. A cold breeze from nowhere blows over you. A bird cries just as you do. All sorts of things happen when you enter into the experience and awareness of Oneness. Anything is possible. Anything at all. I’ve seen physical reality reshape itself right in front of my eyes in myriads of ways. How is this possible? This physical world that our senses tell us is solid, isn’t. It governs itself with certain “laws” (gravity, for example) but at a deeper level the rules change. We’re really living in a holographic virtual reality 3-D learning environment where we are confronted with everything we believe, so we can test it to see if it’s really, really true. When we find out what is True, then we know and find out again and again, that anything—anything at all—truly is possible. The pregnant void where everything exists in unmanifest form, can manifest at any time in any way. Physical reality is malleable. It can be hard to believe until you've experienced it, but once you do, the wild, weird, wonderful world that it opens to you is totally worth giving up limiting thoughts and beliefs and even the laws of the physical universe itself. Won't you join me?

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